Archives: Podcast

Water Podcast (Issue 37.1)

Intro  Editorial Overview with Nicola Ross (0:03) Wade Davis on the imminent threat from resource exploitation in the Sacred Headwaters of Northern B.C. (0:16) A visit to Steam Whistle Brewery to understand how they are saving 5 million litres of water each year making their premium pilsner. (0:54) An enigmatic […]

Innovations in Education (Issue 36.5)

Introduction (20s-1m24s dur 1m04s) Editorial Overview with Associate Editor Fraser Los (1m28s-8m59s dur: 7m30s) Kate Davies on Sustainable Literacy and the need to move our education system away from vocational training to environmental awareness (9m36s-31m50s dur: 22m44s)

Biodiversity (Issue 36.6)

Introduction (0-2m01s) Editorial Overview with Nicola Ross (2m06-28m24s dur. 26m18s) Biodiversity Primer: Everything you ever wanted to know about Biodiversity, sustainability and fighting the good fight from the inside, with Steve Hounsell of Ontario Power Generation (28m31s-1h10m16s dur 41m45s) Book Review: Mark Brooks on "Prosperity without Growth" by Tim Jackson […]

Out of this World (Issue 36.4)

Intro Editorial Overview (1m11 – 13m06 dur: 11m54) "Where in the World is Don Gamble?"How a missing environmental consultant found himself. (13m00 – 33m41 dur. 20m40) "Mr. Gorgolewski, Tear down that wall (and reuse it)" When 35% of our waste stream is demolition waste, it's time to rethink our building practices. […]

New Eco Books: Feature Interview with Margaret Atwood

Her face is smiling out from the cover of the Books 2010 issue of Alternatives Journal and between the covers Trent University environmental resource studies prof Stephan Bocking examines the power of story telling in Atwood’s latest novel “The Year of the Flood” (along with Douglas Coupland’s “Generation A”) And […]

New Eco Books (Issue 36.3)

Introduction (0m22s – 2m44s dur. 2m22s) Editorial Overview and "Slow Death by Rubber Duck" (2m50s – 13m36s dur. 10m46) "What Should Harper Read" (13m45s – 23m06s dur. 9m20s) Stephen Bocking on Environmental Fiction (23m18s – 39m15s dur. 15m56s) Trends in environmental books and recommended reads (39m21s – 51m07s  dur. 11m45s)

New Eco Books: “The War in the Country”

Thomas Pawlick's new book "the War in the Country: How the Fight to save Rural Life will shape our Future" is a rip snorting, page turner filled with intrigue, violence, deception, and greed. (And you thought environmental non-fiction was dry and boring. ) In it Pawlick recounts, with evident dismay, […]

Building Resilience, Part 1 (Issue 36.2)

Executive Editor Nicola Ross in conversation with the father of resilience in ecological thinking, Buzz Holling. In part two: Andrew McMurry, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo weighs in on The Rhetoric of Resilience (“In a world that runs on persuasion, the green movement would […]